Michigan Matt

Ya'll thought the NCAA was wild? Michigan's over here taking house tours with meta glasses to force high schools out of football playoffs. – at Frankenmuth, MI

It only took daylight savings time and 3 days of no sun to book my next Florida trip.

I'm not sure what it means but I've met my 3rd bartender this year who left accounting to bartend. – at Frankenmuth, MI

Working on my Claude skill for email and had it evaluate my tone for different recipients: Staff: Terse Advisors: collegial & technical Vendors: Firm with aggressive push back Peers: Dry & sarcastic humor, can be taken as offensive in professional communication. Nailed it. – at Frankenmuth, MI

"I figured if a couple drunk idiots can run successful firms I could do it too." I'm just over here inspiring new firm owners 1 conference hotel bar at a time. – at Frankenmuth, MI

I'm not saying I'm bad at running a firm but Claude did find $17,000 worth of missed billings in 2026. I provided all 24, 25 & 26 invoices plus 2026 completed tasks. It scanned it all and gave me an output in 10 minutes that used to take me a full day. – at Frankenmuth, MI

Do I have any SMU connections on here? We're going to the game this Saturday and trying to figure out a tailgate plan. – at Frankenmuth, MI

Kick every advisor under $100 million off your platform then run this ad. Bold move, Cotton. – at Frankenmuth, MI

Asked for a shareholder basis schedule because there appeared to be distributions in excess of basis. I got back a revised k-1 with zero distributions🤦‍♂️ – at Frankenmuth, MI

No matter how great of a firm you run, there will be times that suck.

Talk with every old person you can. Today I talked with a woman in her 90s who immigrated from Germany. Her father went MIA fighting for Germany early in WWII and she married a German who fled to the US who was part of the occupying force for the US army in Germany after the war. – at Frankenmuth, MI

My 6th grade niece stopped by my house with 2 friends. After about 5 minutes I asked if they were supposed to be doing something. Turns out it was cross country practice and this was a rest stop. I think this one's destined to be a cheerleader. – at Frankenmuth, MI

Neighbor kid 2 doors down walks outside while my sprinkler is running and yells "woah! You have a really cool sprinkler!" Excuse me while I bask in the glory of my newfound title of best sprinkler on the block. – at Frankenmuth, MI

I have 3 elderly neighbors who live alone. I found it odd they have their garage doors open every morning. Turns out it's to let each other know they're not dead. – at Frankenmuth, MI

I was recently referred to as an "elder statesman of the profession." I now have a sudden urge to set off cherry bombs or TP a house. I can't be an elder statesman for a few more decades.

Rush hour at 8:30 this morning. Everyone else is welcome to keep their city traffic. – at Clio, MI

Just a friendly reminder AI now enables companies to easily aggregate data from corporate message platforms like Slack and Teams. If you're trashing your employer, it's time to move it to your personal phone. – at Highland, MI

My favorite CPE evaluation comment ever was "speaker doesn't take himself seriously." You sir, are 100% right. You really want another 50 minutes of the same old boredom?

Cleaning my basement and found the unbranded DOS based computer that held all our billing data until 2018. Can't say I saw Claude coming. – at Commerce, MI

I hit inbox zero today. It lasted 4 minutes. – at Commerce, MI